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Printing Defects

Defective Register - knitting repeat is a shift of one or more repeats of a printed pattern, colours and lines of the resulting printing overlap.
Unprinted spot - occurs for example in printing a fabric with slubs or by fuzz balls in the printing paste.
Imprint - is created by touching insufficiently dried right side of the print.
Bleeding - created by letting in nonfixed dye into white or light print spots during inappropriate machine-washing and pressing.
Unfocused outline of printed areas, the so called beard - cut contours of the print - covered by a printed outline.

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